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Hitler's Death Camps: The Sanity of Madness

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I read this book when I was 16, after FINALLY watching a copy of "Schindler's List". From the moment I began the movie, I was entranced by the Holocaust and immediately wanted to read as much as I could about this dark time in Our History. As I expected, there isn't that much available to a 16 year old (I am 19 now), but this book was enough and then some! It is amazing how the author goes through EACH individual camp (major camp) and illuminates the reader as to what occured and what fate awaited not only the comandants, but the female SS officers. From this book, it is so easy to FEEL what the victims of the Holocaust felt and SEE the horror they witnessed. This is one of my most favorite books!

I'll be brief. A deeply disturbing account of Nazi concentration camps and the activities that took place at such locales. It is truly hard to imagine the abhorrent behavior and actions that were used against Jews, mainly Jews, and other non-sanctioned races designated by the National Socialist Worker's Party in the years before and throughout WWII. Feig guides the reader along a nightmarish tour of grisly death and, what many inhabitants of these camps must of felt, psychological hopelessness.

Konnilyn Feig's engrossing journey into our not so distant past is an incredible encounter with the depths of human suffering and ultimately, the strength of humanity. A fastidious chronicle of Hitler's evil plans in action, "Hitler's Death Camps" is brutally honest in conveying the scope of the Holocaust's devastation. For an uninitiated reader of WWII suffering, Feig's book will be shocking but compelling. It is a needed text to fully comprehend what can happen to a society in the hands of hatred and moral dereliction. If you want to know what really occurred in the Holocaust, the reading of "Hitler's Death Camps" is mandatory

This book does an admirable job of detailing the horrors inflicted on those victims of the Nazi camps. From Chelmno to Bergen-Belsen, all the major camps are described in unflinching language. The only drawback to the book is some of the critcisms the author levels at the Allies during World War II and before the war. Some examples of this unfair treatment: 1) She berates them for not attacking railroads leading to the camps or bombing the crematoriums. However, she herself admitted that the Germans would have quickly repaired the tracks and the crematoriums. Thus it would have taken multiple raids made against these targets, effectively denying the bombers from use against the Nazi war machine. If there were multiple raids made, it could very well have led to defeat of Allied forces on key fronts. It is doubtful that even if these multiple raids had been made that the Germans would have given up on killing their victims. The author herself stated that the Nazis, beyond any reason, was fervently trying to kill as many concentration camp inmates as possible before Allied troops arrived. Thus it would be unlikely that the Nazi effort to kill Jews would have been dissuaded. 2) She berates the US and Britain for not allowing widespread immigration during the Depression. She ignores the fact that both US and Britain were in the grips of (surprise!) the biggest Depression the world had seen and thus didn't need more people competing with American and British workers for scarce jobs. 3) She attacks Britain for not allowing widespread Jewish immigration into Palestine just before World War II and during it. She obviously doesn't understand that if that thing she wished for was allowed, the Arabs might have revolted against the British (as she even mentioned in the book) and may have sided with Germany. If that had happened, the Suez Canal would have been cut and Britain would have lost a vital source of supplies. Being deprived of that, Great Britain might have actually fallen to Nazi juggernaut and Hitler essentially won the war in Europe. If THAT had happened, I guarantee many more inmates would have died.

As a High School History teacher I feel this is the most detailed account of the Holocaust there is. Most of my students who have read portions of this book just can't believe that people could be that evil. This book has sparked more interest on the Holocaust than any other that I've have shown to my students in the past few years. This book is a must for anyone interested in the Holocaust!

This book is an amazing, detailed, and comprehensive look at humanity's darkest event. Konnilyn Feig broke ground in the subject over twenty years before the buzz of the Holocaust that is happening today. If you're interested in the recent lawsuits or the investigations into the actions of the allied and nuetral governments during the Holocaust-this book is of great improtance. HITLER'S DEATH CAMPS tells what happened, who was involved, who aided the Holocaust, who profited, who experimented, and how over 4 million Jews were systematically rounded up, transported, and sluaghtered. The accounts of horrors are chilling. It is simply a must read for anyone who wants to know all the happenings of the most savage events in human history.

I have had the honor, and pleasure, of being Dr. KonnilynFeig's student at Foothill College, CA. I have read this book, and Ithink I can say that it reflects the personality of the author. Dr. Feig is a Teacher, first and foremost. She is one of the few, rare, great Academics, a scholar of enormous skill and learning. This is shown in every page of her book, her intelligence, her strong, vibrant personality, and her critical, clear eye of a Historian. This book is possibly one of the best histories of Hitler's death camps that could ever be written, because it is written by an intelligent person who strives to keep this horrifying part of our shared past from being forgotten. She writes with strength, with passion, and with the vitality of a woman who has devoted her life to teaching, to one of the most noble professions of this world. Not only is this book an unsurpassed history of a terrifying time, but it is a monument to the vital, burning mind of a woman who can best be designated by a single word, a word that speaks of intelligence, nobility, and necessity-a Teacher. For the author alone, the book is more than worth reading, for Academics such as this are not often found.

For those interested in learning about the holocaust, Hitler's Death Camps is the best choice. It gives the reader a picture of the holocaust as a whole. The author does not get bogged down in detail, but rather gives the reader a broad perspective, from the T4 experiments to the Allied liberation. A great source of information that's easy to read.

When a human being uses his capabilities and innovative mind to do something negative for the human race then the world should watch out! The Story about Hitler was always mixed with a tremendous amount of lies so as to keep the real truth from the world. This book makes the reader come face to face with the harsh reality of what Hitler did and makes you think about "why" and "how" could he do such a thing. This book is a supurb example of the pain, grief, suffering a single human being can put an entire race through. It is the most emotionally grasping book I have ever read in my entire life!!

Unlike many other books on World War Two and the surrounding issues, whose writing style defends itself against the danger of being read, Hilter's Death Camps is clear and readable. This is by no means at the expence of quality or completeness. In all respects, this is by far the best book I have read on the topic